In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic scholars as accessible today as they were then.” — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“One cannot, therefore, understand Arabic science without considering the extent to which Islam influenced scientific and philosophical thought. Arabic science was, throughout its golden… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
“His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge he included… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank. — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
“Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power over most… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
“I suspect that if aliens did come to Earth, it would be as researchers: biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keen to understand the peculiar workings of… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee --… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence,… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
“For the early scholars of Islam, there would have been no conflict between religion and science. The early thinkers were quite clear abou their… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
“It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific progress is… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
“the domain of quantum world is so astonishingly strange that it even makes tales of alien abductions sound perfectly reasonable” — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
“... the site still radiated a powerful aura that whispered of past glories too ancient for me to comprehend.” — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
Time doesn’t flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up, — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share
